Great footage of 80s indie bands touring the uni circuit
There's loads of it on youtube. Just look at this Smiths footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l60Pcw87bwQ
Im not sure how it was all filmed- hand held VHS camera smuggled in by a fan? It certainly preserves forever that generation, with its Thatcher, youth training schemes,second hand jumpers, and paper fanzines. Its as if there still all there in the venue.
Look at this My Bloody Valentine footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mwe22CK2U8
You can imagine kids in there bedrooms watching bootleg videos of this footage. And now I watch it on my laptop. Funny really.
Anyway, what other footage of indie bands touring the uk uni circuit in the 80s is good?
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There's lots of good footage from the London Town & Country club
Pulp in '91
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ZFf9ky_3A
Lush '92
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCVIdtOkIok
Big Audio Dynamite '90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22nc6Mvev1k
The La's '89
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ-7gifqwGE - whole gig!
The Sundays '92 - bit scratchy quality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GIWkx9J2zA
Buffalo Tom '92 - full 50minute set - I'm guessing this was shot for Gary Crowley's The Beat show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbLr8RxDamo
Full hour long Beastie Boys set from '92
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miXkVw8Zji8
And a whole Cocteau Twins set from 1990 starts here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-h72cfuvk
Pixies '88
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDmo4JZyRoQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiR6uqhjK1A
and so on
I know these are mostly not 80s but anyway
all from the same venue
and there's loads of others if you search
best 80s gig footage though
starts here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-KBg_w7R3I
15 parts
Specials, Live in Japan 1980
awesome gig
Oh, and this is great too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynPJSWyvCDY
Verve, Camden Town Hall '92
a lot of this stuff was shot by the label, the bands, or the venues around this time but never commercially released
the Sunday's drummer was so good
btw
it wasn't all yts schemes
here's a GREAT rendition of a Forest by Bobby Smith and the boys short-sleeved in the summer sun, 1986
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Ggx-LPhHw
Oh hello!
the Bunnymen Live at Royal Albert Hall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixk3NRtu4nw
Kinda a lil bit better when I saw 'em at the Hollywood Palladium, bun never mind...
I really enjoyed that Smiths one
all those young lads clambering up to get their little moment.... kissing Morrissey. You wouldn't see that now right?
No
Their beerguts would prevent actual kissing: just a bit of light frottage.
Im not sure if it would happen today or not
I remember watching the others in about 2002 when everyone invaded the stage. But somehow it wasn't the same. There's lots of good smiths footage around. This one isn't fan filmed but still really good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FleOp_njaU
Ocean Colour Scene - 1991 (Venue New Cross)
As shown on Snub TV. I only post it because I am in the front row somewhere. Don't even like Ocean Colour Scene.
link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzT2YScttp8
always really enjoyed this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SLtExD5_mE
yeah its the fan footage that i really meant this thread to be about
The stuff recorded on a single camera by someone seemingly stood in the audience.